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Abstract:

At Kansas State University, we are conducting research concerning nutrition and feeding
management of calves, heifers, and dairy steers with emphasis in the following areas: 1) development
of feeds and management practices to stimulate rumen development and allow earlier weaning,
concomitant with satisfactory growth; 2) vitamin supplementation to improve performance of growing
dairy animals, with emphasis on increasing efficiency of the immune system; 3) determination of
nutrients needed by growing heifers to achieve desired rates of growth required to reach adequate size
at freshening at 22 to 24 mo of age, without getting too fat; 4) study of feeding programs designed to
produce lean, tender, flavorful meat from surplus dairy bulls, with emphasis on methods to monitor
body composition in the live animal; and 5) investigation of protein sources for milk replacers.